Praiseworthy
No se pudo agregar al carrito
Add to Cart failed.
Error al Agregar a Lista de Deseos.
Error al eliminar de la lista de deseos.
Error al añadir a tu biblioteca
Error al seguir el podcast
Error al dejar de seguir el podcast
$0.99/mes por los primeros 3 meses
Exclusivo para miembros Prime: ¿Nuevo en Audible? Obtén 2 audiolibros gratis con tu prueba.
Praiseworthy
Compra ahora por $29.95
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrado por:
-
Jacqui Katona
-
De:
-
Alexis Wright
Acerca de esta escucha
An astonishing and monumental masterpiece from the towering Australian writer Alexis Wright whose “words explode from the page” (The Monthly)
In a small town in the north of Australia, a mysterious cloud heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ancestors. A crazed visionary looks to donkeys to solve the global climate crisis and the economic dependency of the Aboriginal people. His wife, seeking solace from his madness, follows the dance of butterflies and scours the internet to find out how her Aboriginal/Chinese family could be repatriated to China. One of their sons, named Aboriginal Sovereignty, is determined to commit suicide. The other, Tommyhawk, wishes his brother dead so that he can pursue his dream of becoming white and powerful.
Praiseworthy is an epic which pushes allegory and language to its limit; a unique masterpiece that bends time and reality, opening new literary vistas; a cry of outrage against oppression and disadvantage; and a fable for the end of days.
©2023 Alexis Wright (P)2024 Bolinda PublishingLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
-
In Tongues
- A Novel
- De: Thomas Grattan
- Narrado por: Daniel Henning
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
It’s 2001, and twenty-four-year-old Gordon—handsome, sensitive, and eager for direction—takes a bus from Minnesota to New York City because it’s the only place for a young gay man to go. As he begins to settle into the city’s punishing rhythm, he gets a job walking rich Manhattanites’ dogs. But it isn’t until he stumbles into the West Village brownstone of two of his clients, the powerful gallery owners Phillip and Nicola, that Gordon learns how much the world has hidden from him—and what he’s capable of doing in order to get it for himself.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Engaging, smart and witty storytelling!
- De Bruce Cannella en 09-30-24
De: Thomas Grattan
-
Private Rites
- A Novel
- De: Julia Armfield
- Narrado por: Hannah van der Westhuysen
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
-
General3.5 out of 5 stars 25
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24
-
Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 24
It’s been raining for a long time now, so long that the land has reshaped itself and old rituals and religions are creeping back into practice. Sisters Isla, Irene, and Agnes have not spoken in some time when their father, an architect as cruel as he was revered, dies. His death offers an opportunity for the sisters to come together in a new way. In the grand glass house they grew up in, their father’s most famous creation, the sisters sort through the secrets and memories he left behind, until their fragile bond is shattered by a revelation in his will.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Beautifully Written, But Mainly Fluff and Filler
- De Megs en 02-26-25
De: Julia Armfield
-
Bucky F*cking Dent
- A Novel
- De: David Duchovny
- Narrado por: David Duchovny
- Duración: 6 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 656
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 609
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 608
Ted Fullilove, aka Mr. Peanut, is not like other Ivy League grads. He shares an apartment with Goldberg, his beloved battery-operated fish, sleeps on a bed littered with yellow legal pads penned with what he hopes will be the next great American novel, and spends the waning malaise-filled days of the Carter administration at Yankee Stadium, waxing poetic while slinging peanuts to pay the rent.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
David Fucking Duchovny
- De Kelly W. en 05-04-16
De: David Duchovny
-
Ducks, Newburyport
- De: Lucy Ellmann
- Narrado por: Stephanie Ellyne
- Duración: 45 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 111
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 98
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 98
Baking a multitude of tartes tatins for local restaurants, an Ohio housewife contemplates her four kids, husband, cats and chickens. Also, America's ignoble past, and her own regrets. She is surrounded by dead lakes, fake facts, open carry maniacs, and oodles of online advice about survivalism, veil toss duties, and how to be more like Jane Fonda. But what do you do when you keep stepping on your son's toy tractors, your life depends on stolen land and broken treaties, and nobody helps you when you get a flat tire on the interstate? When are you allowed to start swearing?
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Stephanie Ellyne really brings the book to life
- De Shashank en 02-27-20
De: Lucy Ellmann
-
Wild Houses
- De: Colin Barrett
- Narrado por: Damian Gildea
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 67
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 56
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 56
The riotous, raucous, and deeply resonant debut novel from “one of the best story writers in the English language today” (Financial Times), Wild Houses follows two outsiders caught in the crosshairs of a small-town revenge kidnapping gone awry.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Insider look at a small crime
- De Probably did en 03-24-24
De: Colin Barrett
-
The Sea, the Sea
- De: Iris Murdoch, Mary Kinzie - introduction
- Narrado por: Simon Vance, Kimberly Farr
- Duración: 21 h
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 359
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 305
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 306
Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Murdoch Amazes
- De Sara en 08-30-17
De: Iris Murdoch, y otros
-
In Tongues
- A Novel
- De: Thomas Grattan
- Narrado por: Daniel Henning
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
It’s 2001, and twenty-four-year-old Gordon—handsome, sensitive, and eager for direction—takes a bus from Minnesota to New York City because it’s the only place for a young gay man to go. As he begins to settle into the city’s punishing rhythm, he gets a job walking rich Manhattanites’ dogs. But it isn’t until he stumbles into the West Village brownstone of two of his clients, the powerful gallery owners Phillip and Nicola, that Gordon learns how much the world has hidden from him—and what he’s capable of doing in order to get it for himself.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Engaging, smart and witty storytelling!
- De Bruce Cannella en 09-30-24
De: Thomas Grattan
-
Private Rites
- A Novel
- De: Julia Armfield
- Narrado por: Hannah van der Westhuysen
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
-
General3.5 out of 5 stars 25
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24
-
Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 24
It’s been raining for a long time now, so long that the land has reshaped itself and old rituals and religions are creeping back into practice. Sisters Isla, Irene, and Agnes have not spoken in some time when their father, an architect as cruel as he was revered, dies. His death offers an opportunity for the sisters to come together in a new way. In the grand glass house they grew up in, their father’s most famous creation, the sisters sort through the secrets and memories he left behind, until their fragile bond is shattered by a revelation in his will.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Beautifully Written, But Mainly Fluff and Filler
- De Megs en 02-26-25
De: Julia Armfield
-
Bucky F*cking Dent
- A Novel
- De: David Duchovny
- Narrado por: David Duchovny
- Duración: 6 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 656
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 609
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 608
Ted Fullilove, aka Mr. Peanut, is not like other Ivy League grads. He shares an apartment with Goldberg, his beloved battery-operated fish, sleeps on a bed littered with yellow legal pads penned with what he hopes will be the next great American novel, and spends the waning malaise-filled days of the Carter administration at Yankee Stadium, waxing poetic while slinging peanuts to pay the rent.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
David Fucking Duchovny
- De Kelly W. en 05-04-16
De: David Duchovny
-
Ducks, Newburyport
- De: Lucy Ellmann
- Narrado por: Stephanie Ellyne
- Duración: 45 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 111
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 98
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 98
Baking a multitude of tartes tatins for local restaurants, an Ohio housewife contemplates her four kids, husband, cats and chickens. Also, America's ignoble past, and her own regrets. She is surrounded by dead lakes, fake facts, open carry maniacs, and oodles of online advice about survivalism, veil toss duties, and how to be more like Jane Fonda. But what do you do when you keep stepping on your son's toy tractors, your life depends on stolen land and broken treaties, and nobody helps you when you get a flat tire on the interstate? When are you allowed to start swearing?
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Stephanie Ellyne really brings the book to life
- De Shashank en 02-27-20
De: Lucy Ellmann
-
Wild Houses
- De: Colin Barrett
- Narrado por: Damian Gildea
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 67
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 56
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 56
The riotous, raucous, and deeply resonant debut novel from “one of the best story writers in the English language today” (Financial Times), Wild Houses follows two outsiders caught in the crosshairs of a small-town revenge kidnapping gone awry.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Insider look at a small crime
- De Probably did en 03-24-24
De: Colin Barrett
-
The Sea, the Sea
- De: Iris Murdoch, Mary Kinzie - introduction
- Narrado por: Simon Vance, Kimberly Farr
- Duración: 21 h
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 359
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 305
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 306
Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Murdoch Amazes
- De Sara en 08-30-17
De: Iris Murdoch, y otros
-
My Friends
- A Novel
- De: Hisham Matar
- Narrado por: Hisham Matar
- Duración: 13 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 119
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 107
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 107
One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat, and has the sense that his life has been changed forever. Obsessed by the power of those words—and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zowa—Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Beautifully written
- De Anonymous User en 06-24-24
De: Hisham Matar
-
On the Calculation of Volume, Book I
- De: Solvej Balle
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Liang
- Duración: 4 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 17
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 17
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 17
Tara Selter, the heroine of On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped off the train of time: in her world, November eighteenth repeats itself endlessly. We meet Tara on her 122nd November 18th: she no longer experiences the changes of days, weeks, months, or seasons. She finds herself in a lonely new reality without being able to explain why: how is it that she wakes every morning into the same day, knowing to the exact second when the blackbird will burst into song and when the rain will begin?
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
The Perfect Book
- De Severian en 02-16-25
De: Solvej Balle
-
Playground
- A Novel
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini, Robin Siegerman, Eunice Wong, y otros
- Duración: 13 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 685
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 629
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 629
Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world’s first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up in naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game; Rafi Young will get lost in literature, while Todd Keane’s work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
What a tremendous story
- De Deb Hatch en 11-08-24
De: Richard Powers
-
Black River
- De: Nilanjana Roy
- Narrado por: Sharmila Devar
- Duración: 11 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 9
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9
Teetapur, an unassuming village just a few hours outside of bustling Delhi, is famous for nothing—until one of its children, eight-year-old Munia, is found dead, hanging from the branch of a Jamun tree. In the largely Hindu village, suspicion quickly falls on an itinerant Muslim man, Mansoor. Suspicion ignites like wildfire, fueled by religious tensions that simmer beneath the surface.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Good but not a mystery
- De ascot en 10-11-24
De: Nilanjana Roy
-
Water Baby
- De: Chioma Okereke
- Narrado por: Diana Yekinni
- Duración: 10 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 4
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 4
In Makoko, the floating slum off mainland Lagos, Nigeria, nineteen-year-old Baby yearns for an existence where she can escape the future her father has planned for her. With opportunities scarce, Baby jumps at the chance to join a newly launched drone-mapping project, aimed at broadening the visibility of her community. Then a video of her at work goes viral and Baby finds herself with options she could never have imagined - including the possibility of leaving her birthplace to represent Makoko on the world stage.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Wow!!! I could not put this down
- De Metro:Nomad en 06-14-24
De: Chioma Okereke
-
The Empusium
- A Health Resort Horror Story
- De: Olga Tokarczuk
- Narrado por: Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Natasha Soudek
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
-
General3.5 out of 5 stars 71
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 66
-
Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 66
September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of Görbersdorf, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women born inferior? War or peace? Meanwhile, disturbing things are happening in the guesthouse and the surrounding hills. Someone—or something—seems to be watching, attempting to infiltrate this cloistered world.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Never ending Misogyny
- De Nina O en 10-11-24
De: Olga Tokarczuk
-
By the Sea
- A Novel
- De: Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Narrado por: Connie Mgadzah, Denver Isaac
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 11
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11
On a late November afternoon, Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from his native Zanzibar. With him he has a small bag in which lies his most precious possession—a mahogany box containing incense. He used to own a furniture shop, have a house and be a husband and father. Now he is an asylum seeker from paradise, silence his only protection.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
beautifully written and read
- De ana teresa blank en 03-30-24
-
Our Endless Numbered Days
- De: Claire Fuller
- Narrado por: Eilidh L. Beaton
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 179
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 148
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 148
1976: Peggy Hillcoat is eight. She spends her summer camping with her father, playing her beloved record of The Railway Children, and listening to her mother's grand piano, but her pretty life is about to change. Her survivalist father, who has been stockpiling provisions for the end, which is surely coming soon, takes her from London to a cabin in a remote European forest. There he tells Peggy the rest of the world has disappeared.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Repetitive, disturbing, and melodramatic
- De Bonny en 05-05-15
De: Claire Fuller
-
The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
- A Novel
- De: Janice Hallett
- Narrado por: Annie Aldington, Nneka Okoye, Gareth Armstrong, y otros
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 85
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 78
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 78
Everyone knows the story of the Alperton Angels: the cult who brainwashed a teenage girl into believing her baby was the anti-Christ. When the girl came to her senses and called the police, the Angels committed suicide and mother and baby disappeared.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Actor chewing noises disgusting. Did not finish.
- De Schwarzian en 03-12-24
De: Janice Hallett
-
Solenoid
- De: Mircea Cărtărescu, Sean Cotter - translator
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 34 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
Based on Cartarescu's own role as a high school teacher, Solenoid begins with the mundane details of a diarist's life and quickly spirals into a philosophical account of life, history, philosophy, and mathematics. One character asks another: when you rush into the burning building, will you save the newborn or the artwork? On a broad scale, the novel's investigations of other universes, dimensions, and timelines reconcile the realms of life and art.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Our Universal Phantasmagoria
- De Isaac Linder en 03-11-24
De: Mircea Cărtărescu, y otros
-
Bitter Orange
- De: Claire Fuller
- Narrado por: Bianca Amato
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 286
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 253
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 253
From the attic of Lyntons, a dilapidated English country mansion, Frances Jellico sees them - Cara first - dark and beautiful - then Peter - striking and serious. The couple is spending the summer of 1969 in the rooms below hers while Frances is researching the architecture in the surrounding gardens. But she's distracted. Beneath a floorboard in her bathroom, she finds a peephole that gives her access to her neighbors’ private lives.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
4.15 stars..........perfect title
- De ibillinsly@gmail en 11-21-18
De: Claire Fuller
-
The Brothers Karamazov
- (Bicentennial Edition)
- De: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
- Narrado por: Ben Miles
- Duración: 42 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 137
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 129
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 129
The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons—the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Well Worth Your Time
- De Scole en 12-06-24
De: Fyodor Dostoevsky, y otros
Las personas que vieron esto también vieron...
-
10:04
- De: Ben Lerner
- Narrado por: Eric Michael Summerer
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 220
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 188
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 187
In the last year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unexpected literary success, has been diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition, and has been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child, despite his dating a rising star in the visual arts. In a New York of increasingly frequent super storms and political unrest, he must reckon with his biological mortality, the possibility of a literary afterlife, and the prospect of (unconventional) fatherhood in a city that might soon be under water.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
A novel worth reading
- De Bradley Paul Valentine en 01-29-15
De: Ben Lerner
-
Two-Step Devil
- De: Jamie Quatro
- Narrado por: Christina Delaine
- Duración: 6 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 6
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 6
In 2014, in Lookout Mountain, Alabama, the Prophet—a seventy-year-old man who paints his visions—lives off the grid in a cabin near the Georgia border. While scrounging for materials at the local scrapyard, the Prophet sees a car pull up to an abandoned gas station. In the back seat is a teenage girl with zip ties on her wrists, a girl he realizes he must rescue from her current life. Her name is Michael, and the Prophet feels certain that she is a messenger sent by God to take his end-time warnings to the White House.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Surreal
- De Nan en 01-20-25
De: Jamie Quatro
-
Ducks, Newburyport
- De: Lucy Ellmann
- Narrado por: Stephanie Ellyne
- Duración: 45 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 111
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 98
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 98
Baking a multitude of tartes tatins for local restaurants, an Ohio housewife contemplates her four kids, husband, cats and chickens. Also, America's ignoble past, and her own regrets. She is surrounded by dead lakes, fake facts, open carry maniacs, and oodles of online advice about survivalism, veil toss duties, and how to be more like Jane Fonda. But what do you do when you keep stepping on your son's toy tractors, your life depends on stolen land and broken treaties, and nobody helps you when you get a flat tire on the interstate? When are you allowed to start swearing?
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Stephanie Ellyne really brings the book to life
- De Shashank en 02-27-20
De: Lucy Ellmann
-
Wolf at the Table
- De: Adam Rapp
- Narrado por: Paul Sparks
- Duración: 15 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 69
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 61
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
As late summer 1951 descends on Elmira, New York, Myra Larkin, thirteen, the oldest child of a large Catholic family, meets a young man she believes to be Mickey Mantle. He chats her up at a local diner and gives her a ride home. The matter consumes her until later that night, when a triple homicide occurs just down the street, opening a specter of violence that will haunt the Larkins for half a century.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
extraordinary writing.
- De michelle martinez en 05-23-24
De: Adam Rapp
-
54 Miles
- A Novel
- De: Leonard Pitts Jr.
- Narrado por: Leonard Pitts Jr.
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 6
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 6
Young Adam, who has been raised in Harlem by his white father, George, and Black mother, Thelma, goes back to his parents' home state of Alabama to participate in the voting rights campaign, only to be brutalized in the Bloody Sunday melee. He is still recovering from this when he is struck a heavy emotional blow, learning for the first time—and in the cruelest way imaginable—of a family secret that sends him spiraling and plunging further into danger. To save him, and any hope for their relationship, Thelma is drawn back, for the first time in twenty years, to the South.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
This Wrecked Me!
- De Sandra W. en 03-01-25
-
Godshot
- A Novel
- De: Chelsea Bieker
- Narrado por: Lauren Ezzo
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 183
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 165
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 165
Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen-year-old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise. Now it's an environmental disaster, a place of cracked earth and barren raisin farms. In their desperation, residents have turned to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance. He promises, through secret "assignments," to bring the rain everybody is praying for.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
flawless novel, not the best narration
- De Adrienne en 05-05-20
De: Chelsea Bieker
-
10:04
- De: Ben Lerner
- Narrado por: Eric Michael Summerer
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 220
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 188
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 187
In the last year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unexpected literary success, has been diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition, and has been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child, despite his dating a rising star in the visual arts. In a New York of increasingly frequent super storms and political unrest, he must reckon with his biological mortality, the possibility of a literary afterlife, and the prospect of (unconventional) fatherhood in a city that might soon be under water.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
A novel worth reading
- De Bradley Paul Valentine en 01-29-15
De: Ben Lerner
-
Two-Step Devil
- De: Jamie Quatro
- Narrado por: Christina Delaine
- Duración: 6 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 6
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 6
In 2014, in Lookout Mountain, Alabama, the Prophet—a seventy-year-old man who paints his visions—lives off the grid in a cabin near the Georgia border. While scrounging for materials at the local scrapyard, the Prophet sees a car pull up to an abandoned gas station. In the back seat is a teenage girl with zip ties on her wrists, a girl he realizes he must rescue from her current life. Her name is Michael, and the Prophet feels certain that she is a messenger sent by God to take his end-time warnings to the White House.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Surreal
- De Nan en 01-20-25
De: Jamie Quatro
-
Ducks, Newburyport
- De: Lucy Ellmann
- Narrado por: Stephanie Ellyne
- Duración: 45 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 111
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 98
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 98
Baking a multitude of tartes tatins for local restaurants, an Ohio housewife contemplates her four kids, husband, cats and chickens. Also, America's ignoble past, and her own regrets. She is surrounded by dead lakes, fake facts, open carry maniacs, and oodles of online advice about survivalism, veil toss duties, and how to be more like Jane Fonda. But what do you do when you keep stepping on your son's toy tractors, your life depends on stolen land and broken treaties, and nobody helps you when you get a flat tire on the interstate? When are you allowed to start swearing?
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Stephanie Ellyne really brings the book to life
- De Shashank en 02-27-20
De: Lucy Ellmann
-
Wolf at the Table
- De: Adam Rapp
- Narrado por: Paul Sparks
- Duración: 15 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 69
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 61
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
As late summer 1951 descends on Elmira, New York, Myra Larkin, thirteen, the oldest child of a large Catholic family, meets a young man she believes to be Mickey Mantle. He chats her up at a local diner and gives her a ride home. The matter consumes her until later that night, when a triple homicide occurs just down the street, opening a specter of violence that will haunt the Larkins for half a century.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
extraordinary writing.
- De michelle martinez en 05-23-24
De: Adam Rapp
-
54 Miles
- A Novel
- De: Leonard Pitts Jr.
- Narrado por: Leonard Pitts Jr.
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 6
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 6
Young Adam, who has been raised in Harlem by his white father, George, and Black mother, Thelma, goes back to his parents' home state of Alabama to participate in the voting rights campaign, only to be brutalized in the Bloody Sunday melee. He is still recovering from this when he is struck a heavy emotional blow, learning for the first time—and in the cruelest way imaginable—of a family secret that sends him spiraling and plunging further into danger. To save him, and any hope for their relationship, Thelma is drawn back, for the first time in twenty years, to the South.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
This Wrecked Me!
- De Sandra W. en 03-01-25
-
Godshot
- A Novel
- De: Chelsea Bieker
- Narrado por: Lauren Ezzo
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 183
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 165
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 165
Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen-year-old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise. Now it's an environmental disaster, a place of cracked earth and barren raisin farms. In their desperation, residents have turned to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance. He promises, through secret "assignments," to bring the rain everybody is praying for.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
flawless novel, not the best narration
- De Adrienne en 05-05-20
De: Chelsea Bieker
-
Galatea 2.2
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
- Duración: 14 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 53
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 45
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
After several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2 - Richard Powers - returns to the US as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, a cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain. Lentz involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the device grows gradually more worldly, until it demands to know its own name, sex, race, and reason for existing.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Complex verbiage with a very self-centered focus
- De Trevor C. en 07-28-21
De: Richard Powers
-
Parade
- A Novel
- De: Rachel Cusk
- Narrado por: Genevieve Gaunt
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
-
General3.5 out of 5 stars 16
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 16
-
Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 16
Midway through his life, the artist G begins to paint upside down. Eventually, he paints his wife upside down. He also makes her ugly. The paintings are a great success. In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street. Her attacker flees, but not before turning around to contemplate her victim, like an artist stepping back from a canvas. At the age of twenty-two, the painter G leaves home for a new life in another country, far from the disapproval of her parents. Her paintings attract the disapproval of the man she later marries.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Incomprehensible biologically-essentialist nonsense
- De Lu Clark en 03-15-25
De: Rachel Cusk
-
A Nearly Normal Family
- De: M. T. Edvardsson, Rachel Wilson-Broyles - translator
- Narrado por: Emily Watson, Georgia Maguire, Richard Armitage
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,810
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,456
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,435
Eighteen-year-old Stella Sandell stands accused of the brutal murder of a man almost 15 years her senior. She is an ordinary teenager from an upstanding local family. What reason could she have to know a shady businessman, let alone to kill him? Stella’s father, a pastor, and mother, a criminal defense attorney, find their moral compasses tested as they defend their daughter, while struggling to understand why she is a suspect.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Interesting storytelling
- De Jenn en 07-02-19
De: M. T. Edvardsson, y otros
-
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
- A Novel
- De: Dominic Smith
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 1,794
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,601
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,599
In 1631, Sara de Vos is admitted as a master painter to the Guild of St. Luke's in Holland, the first woman to be so recognized. Three hundred years later, only one work attributed to de Vos is known to remain - a haunting winter scene, At the Edge of a Wood, which hangs over the bed of a wealthy descendant of the original owner. An Australian grad student, Ellie Shipley, struggling to stay afloat in New York, agrees to paint a forgery of the landscape, a decision that will haunt her.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Undone by Cadmium Yellow
- De Mel en 04-18-16
De: Dominic Smith
-
In Tongues
- A Novel
- De: Thomas Grattan
- Narrado por: Daniel Henning
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
It’s 2001, and twenty-four-year-old Gordon—handsome, sensitive, and eager for direction—takes a bus from Minnesota to New York City because it’s the only place for a young gay man to go. As he begins to settle into the city’s punishing rhythm, he gets a job walking rich Manhattanites’ dogs. But it isn’t until he stumbles into the West Village brownstone of two of his clients, the powerful gallery owners Phillip and Nicola, that Gordon learns how much the world has hidden from him—and what he’s capable of doing in order to get it for himself.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Engaging, smart and witty storytelling!
- De Bruce Cannella en 09-30-24
De: Thomas Grattan
-
Black Butterflies
- A Novel
- De: Priscilla Morris
- Narrado por: Rachel Atkins, Priscilla Morris
- Duración: 6 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 21
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 21
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 21
Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect makeshift barricades, splitting the city into ethnic enclaves. Each morning, the people who live there—whether Muslim, Croat, or Serb—push the barriers aside. When violence erupts and becomes, finally, unavoidable, Zora, an artist and teacher, sends her husband and elderly mother to safety in England. She stays behind, reluctant to believe that hostilities will last more than a few weeks. As the city falls under siege, everything she loves about her home is laid to waste, black ashes floating over the rooftops.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Beautiful prose -simple story
- De Cco en 02-10-25
De: Priscilla Morris
-
The Wolf Hunt
- A Novel
- De: Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
- Narrado por: Gilli Messer
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 30
Lilach has it all: a beautiful home in the heart of Silicon Valley, a successful husband and stable marriage, and a teenage son, Adam, with whom she has always felt a particular closeness. Israeli immigrants, the family has now lived in the U.S. long enough that they consider it home. But after a brutal attack on a local synagogue shakes their sense of safety, Adam enrolls in a self-defense class taught by a former Israeli Special Forces officer. There, for the first time, he finds a sense of confidence and belonging. Then, tragedy strikes again.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Animal cruelty
- De Modified en 08-22-23
-
The Shadow Key
- A Novel
- De: Susan Stokes-Chapman
- Narrado por: Richard Harrington
- Duración: 13 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 17
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 15
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 15
On an isolated estate in late-eighteenth-century rural Wales, a young English doctor uncovers dangerous secrets that may threaten his own life in this spellbinding Gothic tale from the bestselling author of Pandora.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
So fun!
- De Lauren Brumsted en 12-08-24
-
Gods of Howl Mountain
- De: Taylor Brown
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 9 h
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 231
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 207
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 207
In Gods of Howl Mountain, award-winning author Taylor Brown explores a world of folk healers, whiskey-runners, and dark family secrets in the high country of 1950s North Carolina. Bootlegger Rory Docherty has returned home to the fabled mountain of his childhood - a misty wilderness that holds its secrets close and keeps the outside world at gunpoint. Slowed by a wooden leg and haunted by memories of the Korean War, Rory runs bootleg whiskey for a powerful mountain clan in a retro-fitted 1940 Ford coupe.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Appalatia Noir
- De meanwhile en 09-18-18
De: Taylor Brown
-
Eve
- De: Wm. Paul Young
- Narrado por: Roger Mueller
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 930
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 849
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 848
Eve is a bold, unprecedented exploration of the creation narrative, true to the original texts and centuries of scholarship - yet with breathtaking discoveries that challenge traditional misconceptions about who we are and how we're made. As The Shack awakened listeners to a personal, nonreligious understanding of God, Eve will free us from faulty interpretations that have compromised human relationships since the Garden of Eden.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Perfect for spiritual book clubs & revival of self
- De Jean the Urban Walker. en 10-08-15
De: Wm. Paul Young
-
The Swan Book
- De: Alexis Wright
- Narrado por: Jacqui Katona
- Duración: 13 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 8
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7
-
Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 7
The new novel by Alexis Wright, whose previous novel, Carpentaria, won the Miles Franklin Award and four other major prizes including the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year Award. The Swan Book is set in the future, with Aboriginals still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment fundamentally altered by climate change.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Symbolism with a Big S
- De Michael Meder en 03-18-21
De: Alexis Wright
-
The Copenhagen Trilogy
- Childhood; Youth; Dependency
- De: Tove Ditlevsen, Tiina Nunnally - translator, Michael Favala Goldman - translator
- Narrado por: Stine Wintlev
- Duración: 11 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 424
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 360
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 360
Called "a masterpiece" by The Guardian, this courageous and honest trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in the field of genre-bending confessional writing, explores themes of family, sex, motherhood, abortion, addiction, and being an artist. This program contains all three volumes of her memoirs.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Masterpiece
- De David Batcher en 03-21-21
De: Tove Ditlevsen, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Praiseworthy
Calificaciones medias de los clientesReseñas - Selecciona las pestañas a continuación para cambiar el origen de las reseñas.
-
Total5 out of 5 stars
-
Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars
- Guy
- 11-11-24
Beautiful, powerful book full of poetry
This is my favorite book that I’ve read in a long time, I only wish it were longer
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña